1.   Concerns about Japanese banking go far beyond Daiwa.

2.   Equion Co. and Aichi Corp. are at the cutting edge of a trend in Japanese banking.

3.   Government leaders worked deep into the night to find a way to reorganize the debt-laden Japanese banking system.

4.   Still, some fund managers are optimistic the Japanese economy will recover, which has boosted Japanese equities amid hope the Japanese banking crisis is abating.

5.   The Center for Strategic and International Studies holds a roundtable discussion with U.S. and Japanese financial experts to assess the Japanese banking crisis.

6.   The failure to approve the housing-lender shutdown plan, drawn up last December by the Finance Ministry, also shook global confidence in Japanese banking.

7.   The sale was the largest international convertible bond offering on record, and in comes despite a crisis in much of Japanese banking.

8.   Unlike Ripplewood, however, Softbank is a total nonfinancial entrant in the clubby world of Japanese banking.

9.   With the Japanese banking system in shambles and the economy already of the verge of recession, imports from the rest of Asia are likely to fall.

10.   Asian markets opened mixed Wednesday, with news about U.S. interest rates and Japanese banking reforms boosting some stocks and local issues depressing others.